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AIR MAIL NEWS FROM HOME
THE RAMILLIES MR. F. W. RICKETT REAR-ADMIRAL
In Channel Collision
Returns To London
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Sept. 8. HMS. Rumilles, one of Britalix's largest battleships-29,150 tons was in collision with the 4,159-ton Norddeutscher. Lloyd steamer Eisenach in the Channel. miles of Dover, last night.
The steamer was considerably damaged.
BAILEY
Promoted To Vice- Admiral
(Special Air Mall Service)
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, Sept. 6, Mr. F. W. Rickett, the man who secured the Abyssinian concessions for Anglo-U.S.
Interests, is well known in financial circles connect- sevened with the Middle East. He has
offices in London, and Cairo, and who was acquitted by court-mar- he has a house in Baghdad initial of a addition to his residence in Eng-connection with the collision of charge of negligence in land.
H.M.S. Hood and H.M.S. Renown off the Spanish coast last January. has been promoted.
The Ramiles suffered minor damage forward, above water. Late last night she was stated to be standing by.
No casualties had been reported at the Admiralty.
Very rough weather was reported fathe Channel, but the night was clear. In response to a message that the Eisenach might require a tug was despatched
assistance
from Dover Harbour at 8p.m
At 10 the German steamer, it was stated. lav about three miles off Sandgate. She was not making water.
The Dover lifeboat was not call- ed out.
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The Eisenach was bound from the Danube to Hull with a general cargo. She called at Brest on Aug. 28
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£4,000,000 SHIP HMS. Ramillies; commanded by Capt. A. H. Taylor, left Sheerness yesterday for Portland to assemble with other warships with their units of the Home Fleet. She is a Royal Sovereign class battleship, carrying a complement of over 1.000 men.
She was completed in 1917 by Cammell Laird and Co. Liverpool. n: a cost of £4,000,000. *
In 1928 he helped to form British Oil Developments Ltd. He obtained from King. Felsäl the concession for working - 45,000 square miles where cllfelds are situated in Irak
London, Sept 6. Rear-Admiral Sidney R. Bulley.
An official announcement states that Admiral Sir Cyril T. M. Fuller. K.C.B., C.M.G., D.8.0., is placed on the Retired List, to date august He continued to act in an ad-
31. 1935. In consequence. Vice-Ad- visory capacity for, the British Oll miral Sir Eric J. A. Fullerton. Development Company, although K.C.B.. DS.O., M.A. is promoted without a seat on thể board. In
to be Admiral, to date August 31. November, 1932, the company was and Rear-Admiral Sidney R Bal- taken over by Mosul Ollfields Ltd..ley. C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., is promoted and Mr. Rickett remained adviser.
He has always contrived to act "behind the scenes." Recently Mr. Rickett, has been associated with the Devonport Trust, a private | concern.
to be Vice-Admiral from the same, date. and Captain, James S. M. Ritchie. A.D.C." Royal Navy, is promoted to be Rear-Admiral ·
It is also announced that Vice- Admiral Baley is to be reappoint. ed in command of the Battle Cru- leer Squadron on promotion.
Rear-Admiral Ritchie, is placed on the Retired List, to date from September 1. and in consequence Strong and energetic, Mr. Rickett Captain Robert R. Turner. D.8.0.. has been able to work over long, A.D.C., is promoted Rear-Admiral periods with undagging vigour, | from that date. He has a reputation among his friends for being able to dispense or four with more than three hours sleep a night.
Mr. Rickett is the MFH, of the Craven Hunt, and has a beautiful country home. at Woodland St. Mary, near Newbury, Berks. His wife Is at present staying at Amroth Castle. Pembrokeshire, which he bought from Lord Kylsant.
In the battle of Jutland she was hit several times by German shells while a model of herself carried | Until two months ago Mr. lon board was also struck by pieces | Rickett and his wife stayed, when
of shell....
The Ramillies last month ex- changed crews at Sheerness with ET.M.5. Vallant. She went into the Home Fleet 2nd Battle Squadron ! and Vallant Into the 1st Battle Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet. This was done to bring all the ships of the Royal Sovereign' class Into the Home Fleet and all ships of the Queen Elizabeth plass into the Mediterranean Fleet.
HONOURABLE FOOTBALLER
<Special Air Mall Service)
London, Sept 6. China is taking to football. And she finds it a welly good
game.
We must not forget that' China is going modern, for all her old philosophy and brigands.
Otherwise we could hardly belleve
Meanwhile, we welcome the All
Blacks from New Zealand, not to be confused with Blackshirts' or Blackskins.
SENATOR MARCONI'S
EXPERIMENTS
in London. at a large house in Elm Park-gardens, Chelsea. Their present London residence is a flat In Draycott-place, Chelsea,
DISTINGUISHED. SERVICES
Rear-Admiral Bailey was the first Flag Officer since the war to ap- pear before a court-martial. Hs trial in connection with the HM.S. Hood and H.M.S. Renown collision was coucluded in an atmosphere of tense drama
He served in Seymour's Exped.. tion for the Relief of Pekin in 1900, from 1918 to 1919 on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet, and after commanding the One of Mr. Rickett's friends 4th and 9th Destroyer Flotillas h: stated yesterday that he is expect-served as Naval Assistant to the ed back in London this week.
MUSSOLINI'S WAR CHEST
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Sept. 6. The gold reserves now shown by the Bank of Italy are barely over five milliard fire, or £54,000,000 of. sovereigns, which would be worth
some £85.000.000 of our currency
at present values. The Bank of Italy also shows not quite £20,000,- 000 of sovereigns as "gold deposit ed abroad due by the State," but this consists of gold deposited in the Great War with the Bank of England, which the Italian State small annual sums is only entitled to draw out by against the
in this Soccer enthusiasm. Other-regular discharge of its war debts wise the meeting of the honour-
to Great Britain... In other words, able élevins might degenerate into it is untouchable. The Fascist a match of honourable compliments State depends, therefore, for its rather than honourable kicks.
net foreign purchases on the five There is no duty on this essentially milliards of gold, plus a small British product, football. We have foreign bu holding, jointly worth expor.ed it to many nations, and
perhaps £20,000,000, they say that the Continent plays further unpublished reserves which plus any a good game.
It may have succeeded in getting hold of. vealed, for the present, of the total No figures will be re-
or privately owned foreign securt- ties which by Wednesday's decree the Government commandéers, Just as nobody knows what quan- tnty of foreign securities have al- ready been commandeered from banks and others under a decree of December 8 last. Perhaps the Italian Government may realise a (Special Air Mall Serrios)
milliard or two of lire by this London, Sept 0.
means. Meanwhile the adverse Messages from Santa Margharita, balance of trade, as published, is In Liguria, where Senator Marconi about £4,000,000 monthly. Tourist is conducting experiments in his trame receipts and shipping re- yacht the Elettra, say that yeater- ceipts, which hitherto only partly day he gave a demonstration of made up the deficit, are now cur- micro-wave transmission in the talled to a minimum.. Moreover, presence of Lieutenant-General it is slated without contradiction Guasco, of the Italian Royal En. that the published trade deficit for gineers. The experiments Were Italy is not inclusive of the pre- conducted between apparatus "at sent large net import values for Montenero, near Leghorn, and
the East African colonies, to which Monterosa, Rapallo.
large direct shipments of goods from other countries are signalled. One may predict, then, that Mussolini will have to lay his hand on the tron rations even of the private citizen in order to get through the next year. He shows the completest readiness to do so.
PREMIER INSTALLED
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London, Sept. 6. Mr. William Aberhart, leader of the Alberta Social Credit party, was installed as Premier of Alberta on Tuesday.
pared to give financial assistance to Alberta, but he made no refer- ence to social credit.
Mr. R. B. Bennett, the Canadian "It is expected that Alberta will Premier, announced that the Fe- | need a loan of £2,400,000 to meet dera. Government would be pre-itx obligations
First Sea Lord. He commanded HMS: Renown, for two years, and in 1931 was promotted Rear-Ad-" miral. From 1933-1934 he was As. sistant Chief of Naval Staff, after which ha commanded the Battle Cruiser Squadron. Admiral Sir Cyril Fuller served during the war with the Togoland and Cameroons
Expeditionary Frces from 1914- 1916 as senicr naval, ofcer and commanded H.M.S. Repulse unti! 1917. He was head of the British Naval Section. Peace Conference, Far's, 1919-1920. From 1925-1927 he c.mmanded the Batle Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Feet, which
he was Commander-in- Chief, American and, West Indies Station, and then Serand Sea Lord. He has many decorations.
after
Com-
Vice-Admiral Fullerton manded the manitors Severn, Hum- ber, and Mersey off the Belgian coast in the war, being specially promoted to captain. He awarded the D.S.O. for his work
was
in operations resulting in the des- truc lon of the Konigsberg in East Africa. From the post of Naval Secretary to the First Load of the mander-in-Chief, East Indies Sta- Admiral y he was appointed Com-
der-in-Chief at Plymouth.
Since 1932 he was Comman-
tion.
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Captain Ritchie was gunnery officer on the St Vincent and the Iron Duke during the war, serving on the St.Vincent at Jutland. He was Naval Attache at Washington from 1925 to 1931. Eits appointment As a Naval Alde-de-Camp to the King was announced recently.
Captain Turner, a submarin specialist, gained distintion for his work during the war
NOTED COMPOSER
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London, Sept 6. The death in Paris at the age of of Mr. Isidore de Lara removes a British composer of operas whose werk was far more popular on the Continent than in his own country.
Born in London and educated in i Kaly and France, his teachers in cluded Lamperti for singing, and Lalo for composition. As a young man he returned toʻLondon and first became famous there as a song writer and as a singer of his ow songs, the most popular being "The Garden of Bleep," which sold in hundreds of thousands of copies and made the fame of "PopPY? land," near Cromer,
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